Ok well call it what you like, but I just cannot be bothered to reinvent the wheel on all this Honduras stuff, nor on this Uruguay stuff. So I asked instead some people whose essential mission it is to be masters of all things Latin and all things election-y and were certain to have people already well onto the case - that would be the Council of the Americas - and they came back with the following:
Roundup discussion of the election of Honduras' next President, Porfirio Diaz Lobo is here. Reuters factbox on Porfirio Diaz Lobo is here.
Roundup on José Mujica's victory in Uruguay's presidential election is here.
Quality reference: a timeline for the Honduras crisis is here.
Look, frankly, I cannot for the life of me understand what Zelaya was thinking by calling for a boycott of the elections as a form of protest. This sounds like something AMLO would do. Yeah yeah yeah I know, AMLO wasn't a sitting president, Honduras doesn't have a dedazo, etc., etc. All I'm saying is that what the two men have in common is they both provide telling lessons to leaders from the Latin Left on how not to conduct yourself in the modern era if you want to enjoy any sort of broad-based credibility. I'll no doubt be coming back to this again in due time.
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